ONTIXENTAL ON DITX. THfr TFESDALIi; MbRCURY—WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1870. that a large force is being orgaaiaed at I that in the event of an advance of the m the Loire—a contingency oon.-idered SECRET TELEGRAPHIC WIRES FROM PARIS. eupied by the Prussians. The fighting commenced at THE SEAT OF WAR. wine. The seoond-olass waiting room had, for the city as superior to those of other towns, but object* IM quarters—the representatives of the BERLIN, September 29. three a.m., and after a well-sustained fire, lasting night, been oonverted into an hospital. On the long that the violence of a portion of the population ren­ Jk will fall back on Nantes. several hours, our field batteries, supported by the General Podbielski reports from Ferrieres, Sept. tables had been placed rough mattresses, and on theso ders it unsafe to plaoe the Government of the BTT of French unifocu.8, addressed 'to the fire from the forts, completely carried the redoubt and THE QTJEES OF PRUSSIA'S BIRTHDAY. 28, that telegraph lines from Paris to Rouen and to were calmly sleeping a number of men who had been oountry within their control. " Of all the towns of •rusaia at headquarters, have been' it ia the Sagne mill of Villejuif, as well as the redoubt of BERLIN, September 30. the S >uth have been discovered in the bed of the Btruok down at Sedan, and were now sufficiently re­ France," says the Pafe-ie, " Lyons is the only one lized in Paris. It is easy to guese, the the Haute Bruyere. They maintained the oonquered The Queen's birthday was celebrated by a grand Seine and underground, and destroyed. There is covered to bear carriage by railway. In a spirit of that has ventured to raise the red flag, and in which pnues, what was the objeot of the King positions and still oeoupy them. The enemy suffered serenade. Six hundred singers and musicians were nothing new otherwise. rough, masculine kindness the poor fellows seemed to for ten days the well-dispoeed citizens have been un­ I to olotbe his Boldiers with them; to tend considerably. The Garde Mobile behaved well. On engavi d. There was an immense crowd and great The artisles of capitulation at Toul contain a pro­ bo watched by soldier nurses. able to suppress a commune which seams to be ntly with pacific intentions on Paris, the the same day Rear-Admiral Saisset effected a bril­ sheering. vision that in case of an occurrence similar to that of desirous of introducing terrorism into the Govern­ I their head, and make them enter, liant reconnaissance on the side of Bourget. At the "THE MOURNERS QO ABOUT THE STREETS." On Wednesday there was heavy fighting at Metz, Laon, the whole garrison Bhall be at the merey of the mental system. Not only were the magistrates for of Paris, M. Etienne Arago, has pub- head of 200 Fusiliers, 400 marine infantry, and eight France has gloom enough at present. Franoe is German oommander. who held office on September 4 thrown into i which orders that the Place Royale near Colombey and Ars-la-Quenexy. companies of light cavalry of the Seine, he quickly filled with mourners. The sight of her women alone prison, kept in solitary confinement, and threatened •forth be called the Place des Voeges. Paris is quiet. • -DETAILS OF THE SURRENDER OF dislodged the enemy from the village of Dranoy. would suffioe to show how mighty is the national with still greater severities, but also the I'refet •eoalis the fact that the latter name was THE SIEGE OF METZ. STRASBOURG. sorrow, and how wide are its branching roots. .*' ' On the same day again General Hill anon ordered sent by the Government of the Republic was for a _ the First Republic, as a souvenir of the LUDWi•..SHAKEN, October 1. MUNDELSHEIM, September 28. Among these classes who are rioh enough to buy a' an attack on the village of Pierrefitte, and the enemy, long time unable to procure recognition of hie |f the Department of the Vosges, whioh The Frenoh at Metz are growing more nervous. The formalities of the surrender of Strasbourg were garb of mourning, you everwhere see the dark tokens though in considerable force, was driven out after authority, and he was continually watched by I of the Department to furnish to Franoe On the 21th, Tuesday, the Motz garrison seat a rail- gone through to-day. of sorrow. Look along the streets and you eee rather a sharp fight, our troops effecting their return delegates of the communo, which paid no attention kyment of the impost and the military Toad train containing several infantry battalions, with The garrison will be sent as prisoners of war to women dressed in blaok ; the dinner-table reveals the to St. Denis without being disturbed by the enemy.' " to his authority or his deii»ions. In the same phich were requirtd from it two locomotives, forward on the Saarbrnoken road Rastadt. They number in all 400 officers and 17,000 same symbol of grief; the railway carriage is filled MARSEILLES, September 26. number in which it was proposed to constitute Lyons as far as Crepy. The twenty or thirty piokets who men. with the same proclamation of mourning for the CLARE-TIE, one of the commissioners The Mayor of Marseilles has posted up a placard as the provisional capital, tne Saint Public published wore in view delivered fire and alarmed the line, but At eight this morning the gates of the town and dead. In one compartment of the carriage by which |y the French Government to edit and calling for a loan of 10 millions of francs. even more lamentable accounts of the expulsion of the enemy got out of the carriages quickly a little the citadel were taken possession of by the Germans, I reached Tours there were four women; they were Imperial oorrespoadeuoe captured at M. Zaffiroputo, a Greek merchant, has placed three public functionaries and the continued confinement in rear of picket line, captured 150 of 15th and German pioneers at onoe commenced restoring all dressed in black, and the face of more than one | letter which appears in the Cloche says : millions of francs at the disposition of the Munici­ in prison cells of several oommissaiies of police, the Prussian Infantry, broke their rifles, and set the bridges. At nine a.m. the mayor and munioipal would have borne witness to freshness and depth of | doubt of the depth of the mire. The pality for the purchase of rifles. expulsion of the Carmelites, and the robberies to the prisoners again at liberty. After cap­ council came to this place. At half-past tea a.m. the sorrow without the parade or attestation of funeral it reads what we aro reading, will The young men between the ages of sixteen and which they were subjected." The Patrie conclude* turing 80 beeves, they returned before German garrison troops laid down their arms. drapery. One woman, whose pious instinots were kausmitrailleuses, of Bavarian invention, founded. addressed to the North German diplomatic agents:— kUled in the battles of last month. There was a long August, whioh resulted in the retreat of the Frenoh the 28th 500 oxen and 5,000 sheep shall be daily |t to the army. Trie mitrailleuse will, it Advices have been reoeived from Paris of the 25th ''The French rulers having declined the armistice and procession of clergymen, Burgeons, offioers and men, across the Moselle and their stand around Sedan; placed at the disposal of the citizens of Paris. This irge 350 bullets a minute. inst. There was no war news, the enemy not having made Paris the theatre of war, and no as also of the inhabitants of the village. On arriving and, more than all, the notes I made on the field of meat will be sold direct and in retail to the inhabi­ bureemeHt is semi-otli jially made ia been seen anywhere. recognised Government existing in Paris, the at the spot, a meadow bordered with poplars, the the battle on the 1st of September while the action tants on the State's aooount by butchers whose ' the further unity of Germany is to A first batoh of the documents found at the Government de facto having been, as is re­ graves being decked with flowers by the deaoonasaes, was going on, and which were, in fact, the beat names are inscribed for that purpose at their respec­ r all future timo by new political insti- Toileries has been published. They inolnde a letter ported, removed to Tours, tho undersigned has a hymn waa sung. One of the oamp preachers, reoord I could compose of the events of that tive Mairies, and at the prices settled by the public from M. Jeckar on the Mexican affair, which seriously the honeur to inform you that safety of poBted by a newly erected cross, then delivered an most memorable day. My misfortunes, and what I tariff. lans, it is reported, are strengthening compromises M. de Moray. intercourse to, from, asd in Paris has now be­ impressive addresB, in which he expatiated o» the consider yours also, and in some degree those too of Is in Poland and V.lhynia. Seven divi- Prussian officers demanded the surrender of Fort A decree, dated the 23rS, orders M. Devienne to come whoUy subordinate to military events.—Von sacrifices which the war had oost, and on the wonders the public at home, were ehared by many. The itry have been tent ti the province of d'Issy on the 26th nit. The oommander replied that appear before the Court of Cassation for having TIIILB." The Leaders of the advanced Prussian which had been achieved, pointing ont that it was despatches from the Royal head-quarters, and from phe Galician frontier. as long as breath remained in his body he would not brought disgraoe upon the character of the magis­ Liberals, known as the Party of Progress, have deUghtful and honourable to die on behalf of the those of the Crown Prince, those of ministers and published an address to people declaring in favour of er Ztitung hajs that a few days ago capitulate. tracy by a negotiation of a scandalous nature. liberty and greatness of the newly-constituted Ger­ personages of State, were all carried off to Verdun, a Bill of Rights, the Constitution framed by the I a vi-it in great pomp to Wilhelmsthal, The euemy had constructed an entrenched camp at The successes obtained by the Frenoh on the pre­ man Fatherland. He then blessed and consecrated as weU as the letters of newspaper correspondents. German ParUament of 1849 being taken as the basis J the rule of his uncle Jerome, was called Versailles, and appeared to be making arrangements vious day had produced a very favourable impression. the plaoe, and oonoluded with a prayer for King and They must have furnished curious reading for the for the organisation of an united German Empire. falley. He rodo with eight of his officers to pass the winter. The journals contained details, showing the Prussians Fatherland, and for a speedy, honourable, and durable garrison. The German papers, or many of them, A movement, which promises to be euooessful, ia uo, drawn by four h.rsrs. Three officers, In a few days there would be in Paris at least 250 to have suffered heavy losses. AU parties were ex­ peace. The military band played the tune, " How have been left without ac ounts from their corre­ going on for the re-eleotion of Johann Jacoby for the a, followed the carriage, and beside it armed battalions of National Guards, numbering tremely well disposed. softly they rest, the blessed," and the list of the spondents, and the result is that several of them district in Berlin whioh he represented in the House J'the hifah officials. T.;e carriage was about 1,500 men per battalion. Advioes from Lyons state that considerable poli­ dead having been read over, the Lord's Prayer and have translated the description of the battle-field of Delegates before his arrest. |o postillions, and preceded by an out- The second batoh of the private papers of the tical exoitement has prevailed there during the last the benediction followed. A verse of a hymn was and the reflections excited by the inspection lttle cortege i--,.! on t lowly, in order Imperial family, published in Paris, contains a sung, and then, according to military custom, as the of the position which appeared in the London few day, but that it is now calming down, and that THE DUC D'AUMALE'3 CANDIDATURE. sightseers- on the route with a good despatoh from the Empress to the Emperor, which several of the leading agitators, including General procession returned, martial musin was played, "I journals of the 6th of September, and especially the BRUSSELS, September 27. •perial Majesty. shows that the latter intended to return to Paris after Cluseret, have been arrested. am a Prussian " and the " Waoht am Rhein " being Timet. The greatest wonder and disappointment The Dao d'Aumale, in reply to the invitation of existed in the highest quarters at Berlin and Horn- rwill not tn itr comi.arison with London his two first defeats. prominent. On regaining the village those who had THE SURRENDER OF STRASBOURG. the electors of the Charente, says that having been taken part in the oeremony had an hour's oheerfnl burg at the absence of aU detailed accounts of the par as prioe gnea ne ate bft'er off here, _ FIGHTING BEFORE PARIS.—(OFFICIAL CARLSRUHE, September 28. always ready to serve his country, ho aceepts the conversation over a glass of wine, while the band ever-memorable occurrences of that day of days in undent, in thu miiit-t of sugc than yoa GERMAN DESPATCH.) General Werder announces the surrender of Stras- candidature. His programme is adhesion to the played a few more pieces in the street, to the delight German history, and, indeed, in the history of the It is ordered that for the present 11 FERRIERKS, September 30. burg at two this morning. Seventeen thousand men, present Government, which is now at onoe fighting world. The Queen and the Prinoess Royal were isold as follows—laiuilyall the prime of the severely wounded lying in the hospital at Early this morning a strong force of French troops including National Guards, and four hundred and and negotiating, and to any further Government waiting impatiently for letters whioh were to foUow 1ft oeuttmes ih" kilogramme; all CoUigny. of the line made a sortie from Paris against our 6th fifty-one officers, laid down their arms at eight o'clock, freely chosen by the Constituent Assembly. He is the telegraphio despatches, but day after day pawed. joints at 1 Cranio 70 centimes; and Army Corps. Simultaneously the advanced troops of and the gates were oocupied by German soldiers. It PARIS SEALED UP. Yesterday, only, the truth was known at Meaux, or at I 1 franc 30 • : : aes. for an honourable peace, liberty and order. our 5th Army Corps were attacked by three battalions, is reported that the inhabitants of the city, driven to The bombardment of Mezieres is expected to com­ The Provincial Correspondence of Berlin says: least communicated to these head-quarters, and the states that the Gardes Mobiles, and a brigade made a demonstration against our 11th desperation, succeeded yesterday evening in hoisting mence to-morrow. " Our besieging army has now completely invested mystery of the correspondence, complaining of |he Guard, the Aul»»-. HeraOM Pyrenees Corps. After two hours' fighting, in whioh our reserves ,the white flag on the cathedral, but that Governor Paris and hemmed it in on all sides. The Crown silence and non-receipt of letters from oamp waa OCCUPATION OF ORLEANS BY THE several of th«. Depart n:ents of the were not engaged, the enemy was driven back with groat Uhrich ordered its removal. It is believed that he Prince of Saxony's army haa advanoed on the north explained. PRUSSIANS. (tended to form the army of the Loire. loss to the shelter of tne guns of the forts. Oar loss was compelled to surrender by the pressure of the and north-eaat, the Crown Prince of Prussia's army is to be collected composed of the is not yet known, but it is not considerable. Several inhabitants and the garrieon. Great rejoicing here. ORLEANS, September 27. on the south-east and east, and both have pushed THIRTY DATS IN A CELLAR. After some successful skirmishing against the he Eastern ann South-Eastern Depart- hundred prisoners were taken. The Crown Prinoe This capitulation is regarded as a triumph of the forward their extreme wings, so far that on the west A letter, of which the following are the main Prussians yesterday, in the vicinity of Arthenay, the olnnteers of the B.inches du Rhone, wa3 present during the whole engagement. Baden troops. A salute is being fired, and the bells likewise the investment of the city must at this portions, has been received from Basle, the writer General in command at Orleans, finding the Frenoh avoy, and it is to assemble at Lyons and According to information received from reliable are ringing. moment be complete. The railway communications (says the Liverpool Albion) being a gentleman of force insufficient to resist the advance of the Prussian bt Loire. To this army will be added sources fighting took place in the streets of Paris on FERRIERES, September 27. are everywhere out off; only those on the west high position, who has just recently been permitted of volunteers, Garde* Mobiles, and army oorps, withdrew his foroea in good order—it ia the 21th and 25th inst. THE KINO TO THE QUEEN.—Strasbourg capitu­ (Nantes) were last open, and they wiU before this to leave Strasburg :— i which are now engaged in defending believed, in the direotion of Tours. It ia stated It is considered probable that the result of this lated at five p.m. to-day.—WILHELII. Great re­ have been olosed. The cutting off the city from all "I hare written yon from Colmar, and write to of the Voeges and Jura between that the Prussian oorps is commanded by Prince will be the postponement of the elections. joicings followed the above announcement at Berlin. external interoource must already begin to be very day from Basle, where I arrived last night. If I eancon. Albert. THE INVESTMENT OF PARIS. MUNDELSHEIM, September 28. sensible and hard to be borne. In Bhort the siege were not ill I would leave at once for Geneva, bat I TOURS, September 27, 4 25 p.m. -The following is from the speech BERLIN, October 1. To HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.—This moment, itself wUl immediately commence, for which purpose Buffer from rheumatism and intermittent fever, The Prussians oocupied Orleans this morning. I to the arrest ofHerr Jacoby, at Klin- Intelligence from Ferrieres says that the siege two o'clock at night, I concluded the capitulation of the speedy despatch of guns was previously ordered whioh will not allow me to proceed farther. We The removal of the Government Delegation from be military authorities :—" Al-ace and train is expected to arrive there very shortly, and the Strasbuorg, through Lieutenant-Colonel Leszynskl: and undertaken." Another Berlin paper states that passed thirty days in a cellar, with horseflesh, say, were (ji-rman 4 property,' and Tours to some point further south is imminent. further advance of the Royal head-quarters will 451 officers and 17,000 men, including National the heavy Biege artillery is on the way to Paris. It biscuits, and wine as our only nourishment. The I become German. How r we ask; probabiy take place at the end of the week. The Guards, laid down their arms. At eitfht a.m. the THE SIEGE OF STRASBOURG. is impossible, it adds, that the Germans sh' uld not bombardment continues. Our part of the town—the |sace and Lorraine no inhabitants ? Or restoration of the bridges and tunnels, the destruction gates of Strasbourg will be oocapied.—GENERAL VON take Paris, and equally impossible that they should Broglie and Rue do la Nuce Bicue—haa suffered ants of these countries u ere machines, CARLSRUHE, September 26. of which has retarded the siege, is being prosecuted pay more respect to the houses, by refraining from most. My house ia Wurnt and demolisted, and I waa akon into possession at any moment, Before the Swiss delegates left Strasburg they with the utmost vigour. The heavy guns employed GENERAL WAR NEWS. firing on them, than for the blood of their soldiers. A able to save nothing except my money and title- One may dispose at will i Have they were told by Governor Uhrich that it was impossible at Toul will not be brought into use before Paris, as BERLIN, September 27. German officer,writing to a Vienna paper, says several deeds. Before I arrived hern I sold my horse and |of all rights by the war? Have they be could hold out much longer, and that the end Fighting of considerable magnitude took place oarriage for 150f. I have sufficieut money to take whoso fute may be arbitrarily they are said to be destined for elsewhere. There is must oome soon. He said he had gone through influential Parisians, without famines, have during f on September 22 and 23, east of Metz. Tho First me to Geneva, and am very anxious to get there, conqueror? Even the most enthu- no trace for a long way round Paris o any arming of several campaigns, and had served in the the last few days reaohed the besiegers' lines, and Corps and Thirteenth Division were engaged. No having neither a shin nor pair of boot* itionist admits that the people the population, or of the organisation of Francs- Crimea, but had never witnessed nor under­ have requested permission to remain in the rear of ground gained by the Frenoh. Montmedy reported to change—absolutely nothing. I know a<) Lorraine are body and soul French- Tireurs. gone so terrible a siege. The munici­ the army They think themselves muoh safer there taken. one at Basle exirpt Strasburg people who kill remain Frenchmen. However St. Cloud has not yet been occupied by German pality had resolved, with the Governor's than in Paris, where they have more to fear, in case esoaped there, of who.n, oa my arrival, I found they may have opposed them- troops. The Semi-Official North German Gazette censures permission, to send a deputation to Paris to represent of a bombardment or storm, from bands of unem­ many of the leading families. Tnree times the Swiss f would be against all right to compel OFFICIAL GKRM.VN DESPATCH. the United States for their recognition of the French the condition of affairs and to request instructions. ployed workmen than from the German aoldiers. delegates took with tu-.-m 500 people from the Be Germans, to incorporate them FEERIERES, September 30. Republic. M. Valentin, the new Republican Prefect, and M. "ARE WE TO OO OUT ?" beleaguered place. Fire th >usaud people presented fill with Prussia or any other German Yesterday the King made a roconnaissance of the Advices from Constantinople report the North Eagelhart, the new Mayor, had been permitted to The stories one hears in Sedan of the total want of themselves, asking to leave the town aith the last French works bet-veeu St. Danis and Fort Romain- German corvette Hertha sunk in the Rad Sea, in an enter the city. plan, organisation, and discipline that characterised engagement with three French men-of-war. convoy, but as tho number to ^o was limited to 500, ville. Nothing fresh has occurred with tho army. Owing to the rigorous measures of tho authorities, the stay of the French army are so astounding, Bays the vast majority of the appHeaaitc h*d to be refused. The reports circulated in France of fighting having THE POLITICAL REORGANISATION OF the cattle plague has been localised within the limits the war correspondent of a contemporary, that were n or WAR—The French private Strasburg is now in a state impossible to describe. taken place ye-terday and the day before are pure GERMANY. of forty parishes, and it is believed that its further they not verified by the unanimous testimony of the told, for his encouragement, that he inventions. Not a i-liot was fired. On the other BERLIN, September 28. Nothing has been respected. The large hospital has knapsack the baton of a marshal, eprcad in Alsace is now effectually prevented. inhabitants they would be simply incredible. Up to ( hand, the French attacked today the entrenchments been burnt four times. The tower of the cathedral sis h in that he is much mors likely to Hrrr Delbriick is reported to have concluded his THE SIEGE OF METZ. the last, and for them fatal, moment, whole regiments of our Gth Corps, but were forced to retreat from leans to such extent that pta-sons are not allowed to |rooden leg.—Pvnch. negotiations at Munich for the closer union of were inactive, not knowing what they were to do. pass the spot. There remain 1,500 horses to eat, and so Pmt, tc, TO CLEAS A>-D rr-rsxitvE.— the field of battU in wild coufusion and with heavy Bavaria with North Germany. BERLIN, September 26. They filled tho hotels and cafes, the offioers enjoying munitions of war for the atm>, and 14,000 troops, Burial S.!ri'r.'iiii .w' S>>istri->ution is made in the STRASBOURG, September 30. tion of Federal authorities, and will be represented who went to Metz under a Sag of truce to stop picket some general or aide-de camp these gentlemen would 13 where l>y irro.:ers, iroum>'i;rers, brush- Several French officers who were made prisoners shooting, Marshal Bazaiue frankly declared that he ratio of 15c. each, or 25c. with a class of wine. Of tollmen, Wholeuln, 0.ikey and Sons, in the German Parliament by a commission. The ask, " Well, are we to go out i" The reply would was striving to save the army and fortress for the bread and biscu ts there is no immediate want If Band illack Lead Mills. 11 aekfnara,London. on the surrender of Strasbourg have been allowed to inhabitants will not for the present be subjeot to be, " No gentlemen, you will not be wanted till even­ leave for Switzerland on parole. General Uhrich is Emperor, and that he knew Mothing of the Republic. the people oonld leave the place the military might of the Bradford Chamber of the military burdens borne by the remainder of ing." When evening came they would be told, among the number. The Gardes Mobiles, who are General MacMah m has taken quarters at Wiesbaden. hold oat yet another six months ; as it is, three | resolved to memorialise the Govern- Germany. ''You are not wanted till to-morrow morning." All all natives of Ai3aoe, are being sent to their homes. M. Favra did not see the King. There is nothing weeks will produce starvation. The interments take BJect of the Tien-tsin massacre. The OFFICIAL GERMAN DISPATCH.—ROYAL , this time that battle was raging whioh resulted in the A great number of foreigners are already flocking new from Paris. The head-quarters of the Crown place in the Bjtanical Gardens. ge that immediate steps should be HEADQUARTERS, FERRIERES, sending of the white flag to the PrassianB, and the to Strasbourg, but it is at present difficult to enter Prince of Saxony and the Fourth Army Corps are at windowa of the hotels and cafes in which the AN APPEAL TO ARMS. redress for the wrongs committed September 27. In La Vendeo a staff officer of volunteers, M. F. the town. Grand Tremblay, ten miles north of Paris. French officers ate, drank, and smoked wore being ' the future. The Mobile Guards who have b6en pressed L. de L'Herbette, has issued a very stirring appeal It is understood that a portion of the siege train REPORTED TROUBLES IN PARIS. smashed by the thunder of artiUery and the burst­ DTEK.—2 IS, High Holborn, London. into the army at Paris are deserting in bodies to arms. But tho reasons he gives for a patriotic has left for Paris. BRUSSELS, September 26. ing of bombs. Dilatory removes superfluous hair from of from twenty to fifty, and are returning to their effort are lamentable indeed. Ho adopts the theory of THE CONDITION OF METZ. Travellers escaped from Paris report oomplete Land arms, withoat effect to the skin. homes. About two hundred of them have been shot BISMARCK IN PURSUIT OF JULES FAVEB the ex-Empress that this is a religious war, and ca'de BERLIN, September 30. anarchy in that city. Day and ni^ht guns are fired. Int for 54 stamps. Had of all chemists. for disobedienoe. The former inhabitants of the A correspondent, writing from Lagnr on the 20th upon the descendants of the Chouans to arise and ^From the statements of'prisoneis, and the contents The Zouaves who ran away in action bad been abandoned villages around Paris who were driven inBt., says :—Yesterday, about two p.m., passers-by ,fight against "Protestant eavages." He "ensures of intercepted letters, it has been ascertained thah executed in the open streets. IF CAMBKIIXJ;: and a distinguished thence by the Frenoh soldiery, are now gradually near the village of C*uUly would have seen a remark­ them that if the Prussians get into Brittany, they will the garrison of Metz is composed solely of Gardes int shooting on the Teesdale Moors, returning with the property which they had taken able sight. A carriage, plain but elegant, with two break the images of the Virgin Mary, violate women, brated waterfall known as High Mobiles. The French army is encamped round away with them. WAR NOTES. fine horses, conveyed Jules Favre and a Prussian out children's throats, send all able-bodied men to (norland, which extends over many Metz, and its meat rations during the past fortnight TOURS, September 28. WAITINO BOOMS AT TOURS. officer, who had escorted him through the lines, the galleys, and burn and pillage all the farms and , lies between the counties of Durham have consisted of nothing but horseflesh. They have A letter from Paris, dated the 25th inst., We had to came back to the railway Btation (a towards Meaux. The representative and head of the villages. It is a question whether a people so igno­ tid, and forms part of the vast no salt, but an abundance of bread and vegetables. states that great enthusiasm prevails in the capital. correspondent remarks), and spend the night in the French Republic was coming himaelf to try the effect rant as to swaUow such tales might not be the better Duke of Cleveland, from whom There is no forage, and the horses are fed upon The steadiness and good conduct of the Garde waiting rooms untU tho train should start for Tours. of a personal interview in negotiation. He had ex­ for being conquered by an intelligent enemy. bits tho shooting. Three or four barley and grass. The epidemics in Metz do not Mobile are admirable. The construction of a If the experience were not altogether pleasant, ample pected to meet Count Bismarck at Meaux, where GENERAL STEINMETZ. |oyal Highness the Prince of Wales appear to have decreased. The proclamation of the system of barricades is activelv proceeding, under compensation -was made, however, by the extraor­ rooms had been ordered fcr him the day before. But The North German Gazette, remarking on General ame ground, and now, aa then, the Republic has been posted up in the town, but the the superintendence of MM. Rochefort and dinary sight of the salles d'attente, and, indeed, by the King's move yesterday upset this calculation, and Steinmetz's removal from the command of the First > extremely numerous. soldiers outside the walls believe the reports of the the two high contracting parties crosaed each other Flourens. every part of the building. The space allotted to Army, says:—"This event will, perhaps, give the capitulation of Sedan and the change of Government on the road. The great count, the arbiter of t'ue nibs when freed from the oil Many companies of the National Guard at Lyons passengers, which is large, is divided into a spacious more occasion to idle and un'avourable conjectures, to be false. destinies'of Europe at this moment, ia as modest into poTdtT, and this powder is have discarded the red flag, and have resumed the entrance-hall and three waiting rooms—one for the as recently rumours of all kinds respecting it have The reported recall of the North German Minister and practical as he is powerful. No sooner tie neither sufar nor any other ad- tricolour. The municipal authorities of that town first, one for the seoond, and one for the third clasa gone the round of the papers. These rumours were at Brussels is officially denied. had he heard that M. Jules Favro had Tho merit of Cacuoine is entirely have issued a conciliatory address, recommending Every part was filled with a motloy crowd of be- entirely false as regards the motives for this step, and f passed eastward, while be was travelling i method mod to remove the oil, FRESH MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN union among all parties. A large body of Paris nigh ed travellers. Suldiers of the line, Gardes imputed to the general, who ha« deserved weU of his west, than, without oeremony, he turned his Dg with the fine natural flavour of FRANCE. Franos-Tireurs is in Tours, and a considerable force Mobiles, Francs-tireurs, and conscripts, peasants and horse's head, and attended only by his aide-de­ country, faults and weaknesses cf which he haa never lit forms, when made, one of the few TOURS, September 30. of cavalry and infantry have left the town in the di­ workmen, men, women, and children, richly-dresBed camp and nephew, Count Bismarck B o'cen, and one been gnilty, as the future history of the war wU mani­ Icrinka so roquired in the later hours rect on of Orleans. ladies, wounded men, sisters of meroy, priests, The Government has issued a decree ordering the Dragoon orderly, galloped back to overtake him. fest. Ia weU-iuformed .-heles it has always been IMepared by Jaraea Epps and Co., BERLIN, September 28. tourists, babies, luggage, bottles of wine, Chassepots, adoption of the following measures :— The white cap and yellow band that your war known t at to heroic personal bravery the venerable ficmists.lTO, Piccadilly j 112, Great The semi-official Provincial Correspondence of this newspapers, poodle dogs, were all huddled together " All the men of France between the ages of 21 correspondents describe as surmounting the portly general adds a warm heart for his soldiers, and a hd 48, Thr»aduoedle-8treet, London. evening says :—" France no longer hopes to change in indescribable confusion. The soldiers and the and 40, and all those who have already volunteered, form and massive'head of the cuirassier-diplomatist d-iep sense of responsibility for the lives of those of \U nnnoonced of Messrs. Walker, the defeat into victory. AU continuance of the war Gardes Mobiles had taken possession of the large en­ are to be organised into a Mobilised National Guard, were seen pounding along in a cloud of dust towards his country's children who arc put under him; that is in vain, and therefore the bloodshed is doubly trance hall 'and the passages, and had lain down to ^ncy dross manufacturers, Glasgow, and their organisation is confided to tho Prefects of Conilly. The road was all blocked with Wurtembcrg he fully employed his battalions, squadrons, and bat­ wanton. Count Bismarck has announced the condi­ sleep in groups of three or four: some lying on their r ra.ttto b» about 0:30,000, of whioh the Dapartmanrs. All men from 25 to 35 years of provision trains and reserve ammunition. Steadily teries only when the exigencies of war imperatively tions whioh Germany deoidedly must demand. Let . Is in .Maachester. The,assets age who are subject to the Army Law will remain in faces, others on their backs, others in so twiBted a the count held on his way, lines of perspiration demanded it. His return to an office in the Prussian Franca beware, lest finally the conditions of peace be • » lii. in tho pound. the Mobilised National Guard till their services are fashion that it was difficult to distinguish their head coursing down his cheeks attesting at once the heat provinces may find its simple explanation in tho cir­ more onerous. AU Germany welcomes most heartily oalled for hy the Minister of War. from their feet, and others—brothers it might be— of the day and the energy of the man. At a lit'lo cumstance that a single commander might involve the town of Strasbourg now won back to her.' "Tho Prefeots are authorised to take the arms locked in each other's arms. Some were oovered wayside cottage the count's pursuit ended. Jules procrastination. It does not now appear advisable ... •: : ''!•••-• .ik?.j# FIGHTING OUTSIDE PARIS. belonging to the Sedentary National Guard and with their great coats or with rugs, and a few had Favre was brought to bay. Dismounting and retiring in the highest quarters to form another separate \jii£ a, and give them to the Mobilised National Guard, and are TOURS, September 27. contrived to spread a bit of brown paper over that to this house, it is said, both entered on their im­ army, as ono division of the oolleative German armies as > empowered to demand that all sportsmen's The Minister of the Interior has received the fol­ part of the floor on whioh they were lying; but portant batinese, with what result a few days wi'l lies before Metz, and t!;o rest—organised, indeed, as guns and ot'ier private weapons be delivered up to lowing despatoh from the Prefeot of the Department the great majority had no oovering save their show. two armies—is moving oa Paris. A well deserved them." du Nord:— blouses. At one oorner lay a family group, the end more tranquil sphere may, therefore, properly be mother fast asleep, and her baby, unwakened by all RED LIONS. Another decree places all Francs-Tireurs at the " EILLE, September 26. assigned to the vencrablo general, whose fame and rz-d far. the din of voices and the tramp of feet. In some disposal of the Minister of War, and subjects them " We receive the following from Paris by a carrier The Patrie, commenting upon a proposition put services towards his Fatherland can ncverbe forgotten, places the crowd of thirigs an3 beings was so dense to the same discipline as the National Guard Mobile. pigeon, which was loft by us in the capital. ' Yes­ forth by tho SUut Public, that Lyons should le and be is therefore allo-Acl to return to his domestic that it was difficult to move witiio.it stamping on a Telegraph clerks are exempted from service in the terday, the 23rd, General Mandlay's division attacked selected as thi projrisioral capital of France flora g hear'h His army. wUich a! t Vie hmstaient of Paiis, teoognisss tho c'aim- of that; with coatiie-ce, Una v v.! at they lose ia him."